University of Chicago

Graduate School Law School
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<p>Hello Everyone,</p>

<p>My name is Damir and I'm currently a junior at Rockford College in Rockford, IL double-majoring in Psycholgy and Philosophy with a minor in Human Development. I am very involved on campus, have a 3.9/4.0 in my majors (respectively), an accumulative GPA of 3.622 with 65 credit hours, speak, read and write fluent English, German and Serbo-Croatian. ...I know...</p>

<p>But I am currently looking at law schools and am considering the University of Chicago Law School my number one choice, the questions is whether I would be "competitive" enough to even apply. My accumulative GPA currently isn't as high as I would like it to be, but I still have two years of undergraduate work left.</p>

<p>Does anyone have any advice? Would I be competitive enough?</p>

<p>Best,</p>

<p>P.S. I was born in Bosnia, fled the Bosnian war, lived in Germany for 9 years, moved to the U.S. early 2000 and became a U.S. citizen in 2009. My current class rank is 14/124 (or top 11% of my class).</p>

<p>Thank You.</p>

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<p>You’re not out of the running. Work hard the next two years, and prepare thoroughly for the LSAT.</p>

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<p>I am completely aware that I will have to work hard, which I’ve come to accept. I have visited the University of Chicago and it is an absolutely phenomenal campus and the university has a great history.</p>

<p>It just seems that everyone in the world is applying and that I have to pull something amazing the next two years to be accepted.</p>

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<p>The main thing you need to do is get a really got LSAT score.</p>

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<p>Get a 172+ on the LSAT and also work that GPA up to at least a 3.7 (preferably 3.75+) and you have a good shot.</p>

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<p>I don’t know what these guys are talking about. A 3.6 is fine for UChicago. But yes, pair that with a nice 171/172+ LSAT score and you’re golden. Of course, the incentive of getting a higher GPA is that the LSAT score can be correspondingly lower. However, I’m pretty sure anything non-URM below 169 will have a hard time making a case for Chicago.</p>

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<p>Flower is wrong, a 3.6 and 171/172 is not golden by any means, though you would have a shot.</p>

<p>With that GPA I’d aim for 174+, that will give you much better odds.</p>

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<p>I don’t think it has to be nearly as high as 174. I mean, what’s the avg. incoming GPA at Chicago anyways? Isn’t it 3.6-something?</p>

<p>I’ve always heard that 3.6 (given the qualifying LSAT score for specific schools) is fine for any t14 outside of maybe HYS and Boalt.</p>

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<p>A simple look at lawschoolnumbers.com will do the trick. I don’t have flash here at work, but where do you get the green clusters for 3.6?</p>

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<p>172+ pretty much.</p>

<p>In my opinion though a 3.6/172 puts you below 50%</p>